This is So Sad...
This is So Sad...
#1This is So Sad...
Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:21pmThis is pathetic, but I'm sobbing right now, people! Grey Gardens, 11O in the Shade, Gypsy, and Beauty and the Beast all gone, and all of which I wanted to see!!! Did anybody go to the last performance of Grey Gardens? Was it heartwrenching? Is Chris Ebersole gonna do the tour? My God, this is one of the saddest days Broadway has ever seen. But, on the somewhat bright side, happy twenty-first birthday Lea Michele.
#2re: This is So Sad...
Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:22pmThat IS pathetic.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#2re: This is So Sad...
Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:23pmSure is.
iliketheater
Broadway Star Joined: 12/10/05
#3re: This is So Sad...
Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:23pm
There's at least 1 thread for every show that closed today & another one for everything today.
Sorry you didn't get to see these shows, at least BATB is recorded 
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Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:27pm
Today's Lea Michele's birthday? I was at the SPRING AWAKENING Actors Fund Performance tonight. I wish I would have known. I was going to post this in the SA Love Thread, but tonight when Jonathan Groff unbuttoned Lea's top for the first time, both of the buttons flew off into the audience!
Happy Birthday to her.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:27pm
"But, on the somewhat bright side, happy twenty-first birthday Lea Michele."
ahahahahhahahha
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:17am
Gah, forgive me for posting this for the umpteenth (sp?) time, but why is Beauty closing? It's pulling in millions, full audiences, it's not it's time. Or wasn't... now it's gone.. 
But why?
WSS2
Featured Actor Joined: 5/15/03
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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:31amLickethelightbulb, I agree with you. But, once again, the almighty dollar comes into play here. Sure, Beauty and the Beast was doing great. But Disney seems to think The Little Mermaid will do better, which I don't think it will. But, Disney does what Disney wants...
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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:33amKids, BEAUTY wasn't doing so hot before it announced a closing date.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#11re: This is So Sad...
Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:33amSorry you didn't get to see these shows. Where do you live? Wisconsin?
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#12re: This is So Sad...
Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:38amHow come it seems as if there are a couple of shows that close on one day?
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:41am
Also...something interesting...
I saw Maureen Moore walking in Bryant Park today and she seemed a little upset...saying something about how someone could've "stayed till October." I'm assuming she was talking about Ebersole. But, I don't want to start rumors...this is completely out of context.
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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:47amI don't live in Wisconsin, Dollypop! I live close enough to the city that I could see a show every day if I wanted to. I seriuosly, seriously considered begging my mom to take me to Grey Gardens' last show, but, of course, I had to be cooling my heels in Lancaster, PA that day!
#15re: This is So Sad...
Posted: 7/30/07 at 4:21am
Glindathegood...
thats not why beauty is closing...
the show is closing because they didn't have a theater to put Mermaid it at the time they needed to decide on one. They wanted to close Tarzan because it wasnt doing so hot, but the Richard Rodgers theater was too small for the production. At the same time, they thought of moving Beauty into the Richard Rodgers and Mermaid into the Lunt Fontainne, but the same problem came up. the richard rodgers was too small for both shows. So something had to give. Beauty had to close to make room for Mermaid, simply because no other theater was available that could accomodate such a large show. they really DID want to keep beauty open, it just wasnt feasible with mermaid needing a theater.
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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:00pmDramaQueen, there are 1475 seats in the Lunt and 1368 seats in the Rodgers. I don't think Disney would have made such a drastic decision because of a loss of 107 seats. They closed BEAUTY because it wasn't doing well at the box office.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:04pmShows open, shows close. The end.
#18re: This is So Sad...
Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:20pmiliketheater, Beauty and the Beast is recorded?
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
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Posted: 7/30/07 at 1:51pm
"iliketheater, Beauty and the Beast is recorded?"
Yeah it was a cartoon released by Disney and was the first animated motion picture to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
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Posted: 7/30/07 at 1:53pmNominated. The only animated feature to ever be nominated. Didn't win.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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Posted: 7/30/07 at 2:28pm
Foster, the size problem with the Rodgers is not the seating, but that the theatre is very small backstage. Since Mermaid is supposed to have a huge set, the show wouldn't fit into the Rodgers.
Plus, before the closing was announced, Beauty wasn't doing so great.
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Posted: 7/30/07 at 2:43pmI said that twice in this thread already.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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